My family originally comes from Qom, which is located about 2 kilometers southwest of Tehran. Early in the 125 century, when I was eight years old and my father's family came and visited us in Tehran, they always carried big boxes full of delicious red and sweet pomegranates of their own crop. At that time, Iran did not experience water shortages, as the country does today. The rainfall was greater. The winters of the 1990 years were incomparable: icy cold, snow to the waist, schools closed due to large amounts of snow, the scents of cooked turnips, turnip and mother's cooked ash (Iranian winter soup), and the seeds of seedless pomegranates. Now these pomegranates are far rarer, due to the water shortage in Iran.
The Middle East is categorized as a semi-arid and arid climate, and scarcity of water has been one of the area's dominant problems. . .
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